Can sprotty work like GMF or Sirius？

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A next-gen web-based graphics framework

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Can sprotty work like GMF or Sirius？ #193

Closed Benson666 closed 6 years ago

Benson666 commented 6 years ago

I want to develop an IDE based on web like eclipse GMF or sirius，which can resovle ecore model described by XMI, then we defined every element's shape in meta model. After all we could get an Domain Specified Modeling Tool。I can build model with it，and export the model with XMI。 In the background，we drive the model transform to some text... ... I don't known sprotty have these abilities or not.Can you give me some advices?

JanKoehnlein commented 6 years ago

If it's about graphical editing, sprotty does not yet allow this. It is currently restricted to viewing graphical models. Obeo (the company behind Sirius) is currently looking into extending sprotty with editing capabilities. Maybe they are also adding some model-driven frontend to describe the editors.

In its current state, you could use sprotty to build a textual modelling tool (based on Xtext) with graphical views on top, as we do e.g. in the Yangster tool.

spoenemann commented 6 years ago

See https://blog.obeo.fr/modeling-tools-go-up-to-the-cloud for directions on integrating Sirius with sprotty.